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Hard Science Fiction

Listed here are links to Reading Guides for fiction emphasizing scientific extrapolation and featuring the hard sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics.

Some titles will be listed under more than one subgenre.

For more detail on this subgenre and additional recommended reading, see Hard Science Fiction in the Subject Matter section of this site.

Hard Science Fiction in General EcologyPhysicsQuantum Physics
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Hard Science Fiction in General
"The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin
"Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven
"Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov
"Surface Tension" by James Blish
"Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman
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Ecology
Dune by Frank Herbert
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Physics
"Nerves" by Larry Niven
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Quantum Physics
"At the Rialto" by Connie Willis
"Schrödinger's Plague" by Greg Bear
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